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2017 Catalogue 1 About ANU Press 3 ANU Press statistics 5 Featured titles 15 2016 titles 22 Backlist 44 ANU eView 2016 titles & backlist 48 ANU eTEXT 2016 titles & backlist ABOUT ANU PRESS About ANU Press ANU E Press was established in 2003 to explore the ANU Press produces fully peer-reviewed research options offered by emerging epublishing technology for publications and is recognised by the Department of the University’s academic output. At the beginning of Education and Training as a commercial publisher, 2014, ANU E Press became ANU Press and, at present, so authors who publish through ANU Press gain full our small, committed team has published over 700 titles recognition under the Higher Education Research as ebooks and Print-on-Demand (PoD) books. Data Collection scheme. As ANU generates more and more original research, ANU Press fulfils the vital role of Electronic publishing has a lot of advantages over distributing that research through stylish, well-designed traditional publishing methods: it’s inexpensive and rapid, and accessible electronic/PoD texts. which is particularly valuable in the dissemination of new research and academic exploration. Lowered production Electronic publishing also has incredible advantages for costs reduce the pressure to recoup expenses through readers. 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Our complete catalogue is also available through the Thomson Reuters Book Citation Index, JSTOR, the Directory of Open Access Books, eBrary, the Open Access Publishing in European Networks and the National Library of Australia Catalogue. 2 ANU Press ANU PRESS STATISTICS Most popular ebooks for 2016 Total PDF and epub downloads 1 Protected Area Governance and Management 12,008 2 Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 27 8,554 3 The Joy of Sanskrit 8,237 4 Professionalism in the Information and Communication Technology Industry 8,103 5 Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 39 8,067 6 Aboriginal Placenames 7,963 7 China’s New Sources of Economic Growth: Volume 1 7,291 8 Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 33 7,265 9 Shaping a Nation 7,170 10 The New Pacific Diplomacy 6,836 Where in the world are ANU Press readers? ANU Press readers are everywhere: a majority of our readers come from Australia (48%), with the second highest percentage of visitors coming from the United States (11%). ANU Press readers come from all over the world, with significant numbers visiting the ANU Press website from Asia and Europe. This chart shows the top 10 countries visiting the ANU Press website in 2016: Rest of the world 19% India 1% Indonesia 2% Australia 48% Germany 2% New Zealand 2% Canada 2% United Kingdom 3% China 3% United France 7% States 11% 2017 Catalogue 3 FEATURED TITLES A Difficult Neighbourhood: Essays on Russian and East-Central Europe since World War II John Besemeres ISBN 9781760460600 (Print) $60.00 ISBN 9781760460617 (Online) Published October 2016 A Difficult Neighbourhood focuses on Russian and Eastern European interactions, with extensive examination of domestic developments in Russia and some of its neighbours where it is essential to understand the broader picture. The underlying theme that dominates most chapters is Russia’s rejection of the break-up of the Soviet Union, its attempts to restore as much as it can of the old Russian Soviet empire, if necessary against the will of the countries and peoples who broke away, and the geopolitical implications of that ambitious endeavour for the Atlantic community. Through a series of essays on key events in recent years in Russia, the western ex-republics of the USSR and the countries of the one-time Warsaw Pact, John Besemeres seeks to illuminate the domestic politics of the most important states, as well as Moscow’s relations with all of them. At the outset, he takes some backward glances at the violent suppression of national life in the ‘bloodlands’ of Europe during World War II by the Stalinist and Nazi regimes, which helps to explain much about the region’s dynamics since. His concern throughout is that a large area of Europe with a combined population well in excess of Russia’s could again be consigned by the West to Moscow’s care, not this time by more and less malign forms of collusion, but by distracted negligence or incomprehension. This is a wonderful collection of essays from a leading ‘Eastern Europe specialist. John Besemeres brings a lifetime of experience, profound insights, and an incisive style to subjects ranging from wartime and post-war Poland through contemporary Ukraine to Putin’s Russia. At a time when doublespeak has become the new normal, his refreshing honesty has never been in greater need — Bobo Lo ’ 2017 Catalogue 5 FEATURED TITLES Narrow but Endlessly Deep: The Struggle for Memorialisation in Chile since the Transition to Democracy Peter Read and Marivic Wyndham ISBN 9781760460211 (Print) $41.00 ISBN 9781760460228 (Online) Published June 2016 On 11 September 1973, the Chilean Chief of the Armed Forces Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Popular Unity Government of Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship. Yet this is a book not of parties or ideologies but public history. It focuses on the memorials and memorialisers at seven sites of torture, extermination and disappearance in Santiago, engaging with worldwide debates about why and how deeds of violence inflicted by the state on its own citizens should be remembered, and by whom. The sites investigated — including the infamous National Stadium — are among the most iconic of more than 1,000 such sites throughout the country. The study grants a glimpse of the depth of feeling that survivors and the families of the detained-disappeared and the politically executed bring to each of the sites. The book traces their struggle to memorialise each one, and so unfolds their idealism and hope, courage and frustration, their hatred, excitement, resentment, sadness, fear, division and disillusionment. This is a beautifully written book, a sensitive treatment of the ‘issues and lives of those who have faced a great deal of loss, most often as unsung heroes, in what are now recognized as Chilean sites of memory. The book is a testament to people who have not been asked to speak, until Peter Read and Marivic Wyndham ask them to tell their stories.